In the Recession, Shows Beat Pubs and Clubs

“British theatre continues to buck the recession, according to a new report revealing the resilience of the performing arts sector compared with restaurants, pubs and clubs. … The report states: ‘The performing arts benefit from the same prevailing trends as cinema, in that they are perceived as a way of escaping from the tyranny of value, cutting back and saving’.”

The Orwell Diaries

They “confirm, if any confirmation were needed, his ineradicable grounding in the Edwardian world of his boyhood. … Cold weather is ‘beastly’, while ‘monstrous’ can be applied to anything from a slag heap to the remnant of a pie left in a lodging house pantry. From his upbringing, too, comes that infallible habit of trying to ‘place’ people … and – for all the instinctive fair-mindedness – arriving at a judgement based on class or gender divides.”

Eli Broad Keeps His Museum-Building Options Open

“In an interview Tuesday,” Eli “Broad unexpectedly revealed the third site” he’s considering for his museum: “a 10-acre parcel on the campus of West L.A. College in Culver City.” But “West L.A. College President Mark Rocha says neither Broad nor any of his associates ever replied to a letter he wrote to them last November about the property.”